Ask Barbara Lee to Co-Sponsor the Congo Conflict Minerals Trade Act

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the deadliest conflict since World War II and over 5.4 million people have died. The violence is being fueled by the trade in conflict minerals: the armed groups earn money to continue their fighting by selling minerals that end up in electronic devices like cell phones and laptops (they earned an estimated $185 million from this trade in 2008 alone). One thing we can do to stop the violence in the Congo is to ask our representatives to support the Congo Conflict Minerals Trade Act, which would work to ensure that the trade in minerals stops financing armed groups in the Congo.

Read more about the bill here.

Ask Barbara Lee to co-sponsor the Congo Conflict Minerals Trade Act by calling her office at (202) 225-2661.

If Barbara Lee isn't your representative, you can contact your representative at http://www.house.gov.

You can also email your representatives at http://www2.americanprogress.org/t/1659/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6281.

(If you get a response from Lee's office, let me know at ehopper@berkeley.edu!)